justifier

Can you speak to the origins of it being 'not hotdog'?

Did you, or the writing staff or other consultants, start with hotdogs or dick picks?

It made me laugh because it reminded me of this popular lecture(o) that was, and is, passed around tech circles

Any relation? Or fun coincidence?

(o) https://youtu.be/uJnd7GBgxuA?t=5555s .. the lecture is given by andrej karpathy on 2016-09-24 and the timestamp goes to a point in the lecture where the lecturer discusses an interface made to have humans compete with conv nets to identify hotdogs

i'd argue it's more of an hn in joke

if you look at the previous thread(o) i think gp is either directly of indirectly referencing most of the comments therein are of the "now you've watched it you can't unwatch it" variety(i)

now, should a meta joke be the top comment about this tool? i suppose that is for the forum to decide..

but the op may find it useful information.. perhaps thae missed the previous thread

op: awesome tool

(o) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14460013

(i) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeIJ8l3PZ88

Your totally right.. I misspoke, should have said 'intentionally consuming a substance'

here is an illuminating issue with the trend of specifying interest

as a science develops it usually branches into specific categories of study

these categories and their proponents usually create language to simplify intercommunication of ideas

but the issue becomes these placeholder words can sometimes be misunderstood: two parties each agreeing on a conclusion but holding different definitions for linking jargon; or sometimes are oversimplifications of their underlying ideas that are less interesting to the science being discussed

what does neuropsychological mean?

googs will tell you: the study of the relationship between behavior, emotion, and cognition on the one hand, and brain function on the other.

wiki(o) will tell you: Neuropsychology studies the structure and function of the brain as they relate to specific psychological processes and behaviours

so what is declining? the structure of the brain?

how do you measure that? less neurons? less connections? do we know how many neurons or connections is ideal?

or is behaviour and emotion declining? how do you determine desirability of emotion and behaviour?

wiki also suggests methods of measuring this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropsychology#Methods_and_to... ; which include card sorting(i) and brain scans

the former suffering from what i would consider a fallacy of overfitting and the latter currently under scrutiny for overassuming(ii)

it's also a young enough field that hn's spellchecker flags neuropsychology as a misspelled word.. perhaps the spellchecker's neuropsychology has been damaged

do i care one way or the other on the short and long term damage from cannabis smoking? of course i am interested in the results but i hope in the future the language, from both sides, will become more descriptive and less inflammatory

that said, much like with alcohol use, you are intentionally poisoning yourself in order to alter your perception of shared reality.. accelerated entropy should be expected

but the more descriptive information we can form will better inform our decisions on whether the benefits outweigh the negatives

(o) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropsychology

(i) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Card_Sorting_Test

(ii) https://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2015/apr...

A few weeks ago there was another announcement about the advancement in arresting the evolution of a quantum system

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14347231

In this way it seems to me communication may be possible

A sort of sending bytes stead bits

this was written in 1903 by bertrand russell who was both a philosopher and a writer which garnered a nobel prize in literature.. russell loved words

i am almost positive all of the views recited in this piece where still considered relevant today have since been made more accessible from textbooks to youtube videos

do you need to, or even need to want to, read this piece by russell? hardly, but at the same time it was written by a well respected individual in the field and there could be value in trying to dissect the text

regardless of your views on any single piece of writing i would wholeheartedly encourage your interest in mathematics

much like how i would encourage someone who dislikes or finds shakespeare too dense to still pursue a career in writing if they so desired but i would still recommend them to take another look

as i understand it the human piece was chosen from the available dataset

your comment seems to imply intentional misrepresentations

the thing about recordings of performances of music from these periods and composers is that the music is public domain but the performer can copyright the performance

if the human performance midi recordings dataset used in the thesis was legally able to also include the performances by Valentina Lisitsa, Pollini, and Horowitz i am unable to see how the net would fail to make use of their contribution

also for the best results those performers would need to be involved in the production of those midi files because they carry with them a lot of a subjective meta information

i commend the human performers in the available midi files for their effort both in their expression of the piece as well as their desire to make music accessible in a verbose spec'd digital data standard

regardless i feel the real impressive part of the thesis is taking the droned midi and altering it to sound like the human midi.. which i believe is the point moreso than the lcd wow! effect of an, author defined, 'musical turing test'

i mean, really.. access to: the thesis, a full blog write up, repo containing code and a jupyter notebook, and the dataset used;

this work was excellent and the write up phenomenal

do you have a link to the manufacturer you are using?

also, do you have images of the empty pcb and finished product after soldering the components that could be added to the git repo?

edit.. just saw some pics from your other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14457760

I am unable to answer your questions for you, but I wanted to talk on the topic because it is something I've been thinking a lot about lately

There recently was a lot of talk and reporting surrounding YouTube 'changing their algorithm' and hurting a lot of YouTubers I watch frequently

One of my thoughts was that unfortunately the best solution would probably mean content creators would need to seek their own advertising'sponsorships

I can tell you the only ads I have clicked on in any recent memory are all, every single ad, of the ones that 3blue1brown places at the end of thaer videos(o)

Considerate effort like this really made me think how inconsiderate and detrimental the current hands off one size fits all ad networks are

Some content creators will surely protest 'im a creator stead a salesman' which is a fair complaint but I'd argue 3blue1brown really brings an artistry to the personal ad network the channel is creating.. self curated ads has the potential to be another medium of self expression

(o) https://youtu.be/mvmuCPvRoWQ?t=22m41s

.. an aside: the ad that YouTube ran in front of the video I linked when I first clicked on it was offensive and jarring, it depicted an animated Albert Einstein literally scribbling on a black board while a student looked on in dread and three words came in the screen, two of which I can remember 'math ___ sucks' the middle was either: teachers, lessons, or tutors; this ad actually upset me.. contrast that with this great 3blue1brown ad(i) and I am more confident in my conviction that a new collective effort in this direction would be both beneficial to all parties and is seemingly compelled by the momentum of inevitably

(i) https://youtu.be/gB9n2gHsHN4?t=19m52s

I'm sorry if it was unclear but the second 'stand alone complex' in my comment was referring to the series itself

Meaning to say Trump is analogous to kuze is offensive to the people who developed the show

you want to call Trump and his supporters a stand alone complex, well maybe

But claiming trump as an analogue to kuze is offensive to the efforts of everyone involved in the stand alone complex

I like how this tutorial takes the practicality a step further by suggesting and showing how to use a specific library to avoid having to try to solve the problem yourself

But for an understanding of the problem space and a good place to start trying to answer this unsolved problem.. this is still my favorite integer programming explanation:

> and i found this integer programming tutorial comprehensive in offering practical applications of the desired algorithm(i)

do any of these examples explain the problem best for you? can you write a program that will solve this question for you? now change the values of the variables, increase the number of variables does your algorithm still work on these other inputs?

can you rewrite the algorithm to give the correct answers for these other inputs?

can you develop enough coverage to prove all possible inputs return correct values?

if your coverage is substantial, seemingly complete, can you write against your algorithm to find inputs that will still require you to further develop the algorithm?

for me, i felt i was able to follow the explanation for how the author found the answer and through that was able to start to see the shape of the coverage necessary to accommodate such a problem (ii)

this specific tutorial is on integer programming.. one of karp's 21, and through reduction(iii) on our understanding of 0-1 integer programming we can understand all of the other 21

(o) 1972: Richard Karp: Reducibility Among Combinatorial Problems : http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~luca/cs172/karp.pdf

(i) http://mat.gsia.cmu.edu/orclass/integer/integer.html

(ii) http://mat.gsia.cmu.edu/orclass/integer/node4.html

(iii) 1971: Stephen A. Cook: The Complexity of Theorem-Proving Procedures: http://4mhz.de/download.php?file=Cook1971_Letter.pdf

but how does that decentralise the system?

a central body will need to maintain those lines and would be critical to the mesh

how do you decentralise fibre, satellite or radio relay?

How does a mesh network cross oceans?

How does a mesh net cross oceans?

how does a decentralised mesh network cross oceans?

yeah, i'm sorry i should have been more clear

what i am interested in is:

i understand that solely utilising quantum entanglement, a ftl phenomenon, one is unable to communicate classical information but does this method utilise the zeno effect to afford this communication by controlling when to cease and reinstate the systems evolution?

two parties with entangled particles within quantum systems agree on a baud rate and the transmitter alters the systems evolution until it takes on a desirable state then arrest the evolution until the next scheduled modulation, then evolve the state to the next desired expression, wait for the next modulation, and on and on

effectively the information transfer would adhere to causality, the observer would be subject to the baud rate, but the distance traveled between the parties could be greater than one that light could travel within that baud rate

if this is the case this would seem counter productive to 'insuring domestic tranquility'

if i was looking to defraud a nation state that functioned in this way i would put in power an individual whose ethics would allow for any motion i willed to be enabled and whose demeanor would insure the individuals eventual ousting

in this way the nation state would assume the problem had been addressed by the removal of the individual all the while my desires would still be in effect

it is like intentionally failing to pay your contractors knowing full well that any lawsuit would be either impractical to pursue or any settlement would be a fraction of what was originally bid

from the abstract

> Intuition from our everyday lives gives rise to the belief that information exchanged between remote parties is carried by physical particles. Surprisingly, in a recent theoretical study .. quantum mechanics was found to allow for communication, even without the actual transmission of physical particles.

ok, does this also mean that communication is free from restraints that particles suffer.. as in would this allow faster than light communication?

speaking on hypotheticals

let's say that through investigation there is found to be conclusive evidence that there was treasonous collusion between the current administration and foreign entities

everyone is talking about impeachment but would there also be another 'emergency', or expedited, general election?

it would seem to me that if trump were to be removed then the entire cabinet and all of its subsequent decisions would need to be removed as well

pence, gorsuch, any bills and executive orders

these would in effect be policy and decisions made under treasonous intent and by an administration being led on by foreign entities so should be treated as such

I am unsure what you are implying with your comment which leaves me thinking your claims are baseless.. would you mind defending the validity of your claims by elaborating and providing sources supporting your opinion?

Saying you're tired of basic income then quoting thatcher has a bit of irony

That said.. you forgot capitalism in your little list

https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/biggest-startup-failures/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_big_to_fail

> This would be in place of all other entitlements, including unemployment benefits, and would most likely eliminate pensions as well.

This is why I dislike basic income

It has become the term for a state run program and people have to tried to sell it by reassuring skeptics that it will replace the systems in place

I disagree on all accounts

Capitalism without the need to acquire capital should be offered by banks and all other state run aide programs left as they are

> by 2050 a new class of people might emerge – the useless class. People who are not just unemployed, but unemployable.

We, I am one, already exist

Side note.. the tagline from a favorite movie of mine: withnail and i;

> Two unemployed and unemployable actors mistakenly vacation in the English countryside

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withnail_and_I

Have you read the gospels?

http://biblehub.com/john/14-6.htm

> Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

That's a conditional statement.

And I'd argue a despicable thing to say

i'll give it a go..

i work in a cafe, shilling high margin coffee at minimum wage in a city whose minimum is below the poverty line for cafe owners who own multiple homes along the California coast

I(i) asked a co-worker(c) if thae do anything in thaer free time and thae explained how thae get home from work and are so exhausted thae just like to relax and watch some TV

I responded, 'yeah, I wish i could exhaust myself doing something I liked, then relax to some entertainment'

Thaer response, 'nah dude, I like working here'

To which I asked, 'would you do it for free?'

(c) 'O hell no'

(i) 'What would you do for free?'

(c) 'Don't know.. I love to cook'

(i) 'Then you should be able to cook what you want, when you want, for who you want'

(c) 'ha! Sure man, if you say so.. all I'm saying is I like working here'

i read gp as using quizzical as a verb meaning the sentence induced in thæm 'expressions or behavior, implying that they are puzzled, confused, or questioning.'

[Assume a standard grammar allied powers mea culpa here, if language corrections are annoying to you.]

You may enjoy: http://www.cookingforengineers.com

Do you have sources? The paper cited in the article only tangentially talks about byproducts:

> The most frequent hydrocarbon bond is the CH2–CH2, as in PE (Figure S1B). Although the molecular details of wax biodegradation require further investigation, it seems likely that the C–C single bond of these aliphatic compounds is one of the targets of digestion.

Which seems to imply methylene(o) as the byproduct?

Also burning plastic releases more than just CO2:

> The most dangerous emissions can be caused by burning plastics containing organoch- lor-based substances like PVC. When such plastics are burned, harmful quantities of dioxins, a group of highly toxic chemicals are emitted. Dioxins are the most toxic to the human organisms. (i)

(o) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylene_(compound)

(i) http://www.wecf.eu/cms/download/2004-2005/homeburning_plasti...